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  <section id="rule-launch-link">
<span id="prop_gbl:RULE_LAUNCH_LINK"></span><h1>RULE_LAUNCH_LINK<a class="headerlink" href="#rule-launch-link" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>Specify a launcher for link rules.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This property is intended for internal use by <span class="target" id="index-0-manual:ctest(1)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/ctest.1.html#manual:ctest(1)" title="ctest(1)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctest(1)</span></code></a>.  Projects
and developers should use the <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_tgt/LANG_LINKER_LAUNCHER.html#prop_tgt:&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER" title="&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER</span></code></a> target
properties or the associated <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_LANG_LINKER_LAUNCHER.html#variable:CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER" title="CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER</span></code></a>
variables instead.</p>
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<p><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-generators.7.html#makefile-generators"><span class="std std-ref">Makefile Generators</span></a> and the <span class="target" id="index-0-generator:Ninja"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../generator/Ninja.html#generator:Ninja" title="Ninja"><code class="xref cmake cmake-generator docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Ninja</span></code></a> generator prefix
link and archive commands with the given launcher command line.
This is intended to allow launchers to intercept build problems
with high granularity.  Other generators ignore this property
because their underlying build systems provide no hook to wrap
individual commands with a launcher.</p>
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